Revolt released a new documentary featuring Kendrick Lamar's producers who worked on his most recent album, To Pimp A Butterfly. The documentary, that features Lamar's producers and engineer, digs deep into the process that went into making the album.
In the Revolt documentary, one of the producers, Sounwave, revealed that they began recording To Pimp A Butterfly a week after good kid, m.A.A.d city was released. The brainstorming process however, started even before that.
Lamar's producer Terrace Martin, explained that the rapper's trip to Africa turned out to be an eye-opening and game-changing experience for the rapper. He brought a lot of his new perspectives to To Pimp A Butterfly.
Sounwave worked with Lamar on good kid, m.A.A.d city but he revealed in an interview with The Fader that Lamar was in fact working on that album for approximately 12 years. He stressed that Lamar "knows his sound" and has a clear vision for what he wants his music to sound like.
Sounwave shared with The Fader, how he got into producing.
"I was the first person out of my family to pursue music," Soundwave told The Fader. "What made me want to do it was the first time I heard [the instrumental to] "Up Jumps da Boogie" by Timbaland. That was the first time I actually heard a beat by itself because when you're younger you just hear the song and you like the song. And when he came in with those stutter drums and crazy synths it just caught my attention. To me it changed the game. Everybody else was on this Puff sound or this hardcore hip-hop sound but I'm hearing this and it just blew my mind. So that's what got me started, it made me recognize what a beat was and made me want to make beats."
Watch the full documentary of the behind-the-scenes team that helped to created To Pimp A Butterfly on Revolt below:
